Dalarna
Dalabergslagen
Falun Municipality

Falun

Falun is the administrative centre of the province in . It's the largest town in the area with about 40,000 inhabitants, slightly more than its close neighbour and friendly rival .
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  • Type: City with 39,500 residents
  • Description: urban area in Falun Municipality, Sweden
  • Also known as: “Fahlun” and “Fahlund”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mine museum and Falun city library.

Museum
Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Library
Photo: Vitplister, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Railway station
Photo: Skvattram, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Falun Mine and Lugnet.

Locality
Photo: ArildV, CC BY-SA 4.0.
was a mine in Falun, , that operated for a millennium from the 10th century to 1992. It produced as much as two-thirds of Europe's copper needs and helped fund many of Sweden's wars in the 17th century.

Neighborhood
Photo: Matthias Wilke, Public domain.
is a large sport complex located in Falun, . 58 of the Swedish Sports Confederation's 67 special sports can be practiced there. There are six full sized indoor pitches in the area where everything from dance to association football can be played or performed.

Locality
Photo: Spito, Public domain.
is a locality.

Falun

Latitude
60.607° or 60° 36′ 25″ north
Longitude
15.6323° or 15° 37′ 56″ east
Population
39,500
Elevation
97 metres (318 feet)
IATA airport code
BLE
United Nations Location Code
SE FAN
Open location code
9FGQJJ4J+RW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 510542745
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2715459
Wiki­data ID
Q26509
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Falun” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Falun”
  • Albanian: “Falun”
  • Arabic: “فالون”
  • Aragonese: “Falun”
  • Armenian: “Ֆալուն”
  • Azerbaijani: “Falun”
  • Basque: “Falun”
  • Belarusian: “Фалун”
  • Belarusian: “Фалюн”
  • Bengali: “ফালুন”
  • Breton: “Falun”
  • Bulgarian: “Фалун”
  • Catalan: “Falun”
  • Cebuano: “Falun”
  • Chechen: “Фалун”
  • Chinese: “Falun”
  • Chinese: “法伦”
  • Chinese: “法倫”
  • Cornish: “Falun”
  • Croatian: “Falun”
  • Czech: “Falun”
  • Danish: “Falun”
  • Dutch: “Falun”
  • Esperanto: “Falun”
  • Estonian: “Falun”
  • Faroese: “Falun”
  • Finnish: “Falun”
  • Finnish: “Hosjö”
  • French: “Falun”
  • Galician: “Falun”
  • Georgian: “ფალუნი”
  • German: “Falun”
  • Greek: “Φαλούν”
  • Greek: “Φάλουν”
  • Gujarati: “ફાલુન”
  • Hebrew: “פאלון”
  • Hindi: “फालुन”
  • Hungarian: “Falun”
  • Icelandic: “Falun”
  • Indonesian: “Falun”
  • Interlingue: “Falun”
  • Irish: “Falun”
  • Italian: “Falun”
  • Japanese: “ファールン”
  • Japanese: “ファルン”
  • Kalaallisut: “Falun”
  • Kannada: “ಫಾಲುನ್”
  • Korean: “팔룬”
  • Kurdish: “Falun”
  • Ladin: “Falun”
  • Latin: “Falun”
  • Latin: “Falunga”
  • Latvian: “Fāluna”
  • Lithuanian: “Faliunas”
  • Lithuanian: “Falun”
  • Lithuanian: “Falunas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Falun”
  • Malay: “Falun”
  • Marathi: “फालुन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Falun”
  • Minangkabau: “Falun”
  • Moksha: “Фалун”
  • Northern Frisian: “Falun”
  • Northern Sami: “Falun”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Falun”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Falun”
  • Norwegian: “Falun”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Falun”
  • Ossetian: “Фалун”
  • Persian: “فالون”
  • Polish: “Falun”
  • Portuguese: “Falun”
  • Romanian: “Falun”
  • Russian: “Фалун”
  • Russian: “Фалюн”
  • Scots: “Falun”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Falun”
  • Serbian: “Falun”
  • Serbian: “Фалун”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Falun”
  • Silesian: “Falun”
  • Sinhala: “ෆලුන්”
  • Slovak: “Falun”
  • Slovenian: “Falun”
  • Spanish: “Falun”
  • Swahili: “Falun”
  • Swedish: “Falun”
  • Tamil: “பாலுந்”
  • Telugu: “ఫలూన్”
  • Thai: “ฟอลุน”
  • Thai: “ฟาลุน”
  • Turkish: “Falun”
  • Ukrainian: “Фалун”
  • Urdu: “فالون”
  • Vietnamese: “Falun”
  • Volapük: “Falun”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Falun”
  • Western Frisian: “Falun”
  • Western Panjabi: “فالن”
  • Wu Chinese: “法伦”

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